Memory
takes the past as its domain, �recalled images�, re-representing our
representations.
Memory
is very necessary to us, in order to function and in philosophical terms to give
us our only sense of permanence through time as a conscious being.
But
the actual workings of memory and indeed our models of it show that the story
is more complex than a single unitary memory system.
gives
us a sense of identity � we are comprised of the effect experience has on our
innate dispositional qualities
multiple
processes
retention
intervals � long-term vs working (hold a sentence together while its being
read/understood)
episodic
� specific event
generic
� refce library, dictionary (+ the rules to be processed by the language
areas?), facts
explicit/implicit
� w/without awareness
acquisition/encoding, storage, retrieval (recall and recognition)
primacy, recency
working memory objects are displaced, long term decay more (strength of the memory is graded)